Word: caped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Discovery's five astronauts, anxious to break an agonizing 32-month drought in American spaceflight, were "elated to be headed for space" yesterday as the overnight countdown began for a midmorning launch today...
Stop the "T." Evacuate the city to Cape Cod. Tell the Globe and the Herald to not print any magic numbers on any page. Magic can turn back...
Joseph Biden and his family are in their Jeep Wagoneer driving through Cape Henlopen State Park to the annual gathering of the state's Democrats. Nothing as far as the eye can see spoils this strip of beach, which the Delaware Senator reclaimed from the military for his state, the site where he announced his first run for the Senate in 1972. Carrying plastic lawn chairs and coolers, more than a thousand Democrats are pouring into the park, twice as many as have ever come to the party get-together in the past. As three generations of Bidens alight...
Last week the government announced that imprisoned Black Nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela, 70, was being moved from Tygerberg Hospital, where he has been receiving treatment for tuberculosis, to a private nursing home outside Cape Town. The news rekindled speculation that the government was inching toward releasing Mandela, despite his refusal to renounce violence as a political tool. Whatever the reason for Mandela's transfer, Botha is unlikely to make any move that would risk the wrath of right-wing white voters until after the October elections...
...University of Cape Town the next day, six young men announced they would refuse to serve in the military. An army of 1,500 fellow students showed their support by marching across the campus carrying placards and shouting slogans...